RA Projects

Steve

• ​Setting up LRS2 observations.
• ​Entering a temporary target list.
• Systematic study of ACAM properties (plate scale, position angle, photometric zeropoints) using data sets gathered in HET pointing tests.
• Development of LRS2 pointing tools: real-time spatial mapping for observing (target position and PSF) as well as mapping relations between fiber number, IFU spatial position, and ACAM pixel positions for both LRS2-R and LRS2-B.
• Learn software version control system subversion (svn) and use it to archive personal software packages like gstar, lrs2g, ....

John

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(A) scope currently under discussion, (B) underway, (C) done as far as it can progress so far, paused, (D) done to handing-off point, availability to revisit, (E) done, [excludes stuff which is too minor]

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TOPIC: control of observational phase-blocking/filling to suit several contrasting science driven modes (D)

TOPIC: statistics of HET transparency/skybrightness/IQ data, broken down to calendrical month level; sky brightness modeling in conjunction with this (C)

TOPIC: (for agenda) scheduling optimization algorithm endowed with freedom to lead or lag the naive best time (target slot) approach out to some effciency criterion ; used method of mock queues scheduled according to some contrasting approaches; in short, contrasting with HETmarkI where nonzero lead/lag was not explicit in optimizing scheduling, a Priority-Trumps-All method (taking in many hours as a whole) does well now (not racking up time gapping interims), although it is good to have a backup On-the-Fly ("what's the best target I can do right now and onward from that choice?") schedule re-constituting trigger ready for really disrupted situations (C)

TOPIC: work out decs for which the elevation 55 sidereal crossings proceed at the n x 45 deg d(alt in deg)/d(az in great circle deg) directions, and the start time corrections needed to plug into these tracks from start to finish, working only with htopx ; purpose was to get precisely timed and filled box-pointing exercises for tests instead of hit-and-miss outcomes (E)

TOPIC: photometry from guiders, goals of intra-night70 zeropoint control reliant on catalogued stars, and estimated magnitudes for uncatalogued stars reliant on intra-night zeropoint control ; HET acam Bgri zeropoints, color-equations obtained from 13 stars 20160321 (C)

TOPIC: local healthcheck versions for lrs2 and virus images in respect of gauging twi cmp flt zro and object images quickly in some quantitative ways twi, cmp, flt, zro ; these tools are checked out and in place (E)

TOPIC: automated acam IQ tools ; these yield imexam-a quality fwhms (beware of moment-based fwhms which covary hugely with object brightness) (E)

TOPIC: nightcam hardware function, software control, software reductions (B)

Matt

Create a HETDEX conflict calendar for use by the PIs

Create the beginning and end Trimester reports

NOSS keywords and web pages

Here are a few requested updates for the NOSS keywords:

• Change keyword HRSemMAX to HRSemTMAX
• Add keyword HRSemND (Neutral density filter with either yes/no or 1/0)

Edit the old engineering web pages

Projects that Need to be done but no assignment

• Change PI Target notes so they can be editted
• Rewrite ​https://het.as.utexas.edu/HET/hetweb/calsearch.html to add the new instruments and use the current database.

Sergey (2018-2019)

• AGENDA
  • change HTOPX target submission to agenda db instead of directly to TCS - in progress

• HETDEX
  • change default shuffle catalog to PANSTARRS - done
  • daemon to watch for some tcs events - done
  • adjusted ldls cal lamp time - done

• HTOPX
  • fix groups sort by optimal time - in plans
  • fix notes cut off for some targets - in progress

• NIGHT REPORT
  • acceptance targets in the queue on a base of night report - in progress
  • fix visits start time. changing software as well as pushing HPF team to add
    TRAJID keyword to HPF fits headers - in progress

• NOSS
  • improving calculation of start trajectory time, track length and all
    other related times. New calculation is based on current TCS code and
    settings but with some simplifications - done
  • fix external night report on het and hydra. fix summary pages - done
  • add HPF catalogue to HTOPX - done
  • fix rack_name settings for new targets - done
  • Change HDX to HET - done
  • fix new data created under /hydra/docs/ - done
  • fix QueueTool? for implicit group declaration when PI set only ACTION_LIST within
    one but not group name and gtype. gtype here is SEQ - done
  • Run shuffle on targets as they accepted
  • now Firefox does not work with some old Javascript functions - done
  • fixed night report problem with pop up target edit window - done
  • First version of phaseblocking control scripts implemented - done
  • change night report so it reference to bugzilla directly - done
  • new iexp script to control observation for different instruments - done

• TSL PARSER
  • on going maintaince

• PI INTERFACE (HYDRA)
  • allow PI edit targets note - in plans